Australia’s opening batter, Usman Khawaja, continued his poor run after only 16 fell in the first entries of the second test against Western Indies at St George’s. The pressure accumulates on him with the hopes of the ashes at the end of this year looking bleak.

Khawaja made 47 races in the first tickets in the Bridgetown test, but has a combined 37 -run count in the other four tickets in the last three tests. In the recent final of the World Testing Championship (WTC) against South Africa, he was fired for a duck and six.

The weakness of Usman Khawaja was exposed again in the Western Indies series

There seems to be a pattern with Khawaja’s layoffs in the trial cricket in recent times. The sailors of arms to the right that the bowling around the wickt have worried it and is becoming a great weakness in their game.

Since the beginning of 2024, Khawaja averaged only 18.7 against the right arm pacemakers who approach the Wickt. The number reads 43.6 of the Wickt. The opponents have exploited this weakness with all their five previous layoffs from this angle.

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On Thursday, Alzarri Joseph caught him with a delivery that moved. This was a repetition of action of his dismissal of the second entries in Bridgetown, against the same bowling player. In the WTC final, Kagiso Rabada withdrew it in both entries with good length deliveries by launching and nibbling slightly.

Speaking in the comment, the former player of the Western Indies, Carlos Bathwaite, called him an “obvious weakness” for Khawaja. Samuel Badree, former Spinner of the Western Indies, agreed this evaluation.

“At the time Khawaja goes out to hit, the wickt is immediately surrounded because the data suggests that fighting from that angle,” Badree said.

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Place for in danger

The recent streak and the obvious weakness have meant that Usman Khawaja has been under scrutiny for a while. And unless things change, his place on Australia’s side for ashes could be in danger.

Since the beginning of 2024, the left batter has obtained 837 races in 15 tests to an average of 33.48. If we eliminate its double century in Galle on the Sri Lanka tour, that average is reduced to only 24.

Australia recently dropped Marnus Labuschagne from her XI game due to her sad returns in recent years. Khawaja is 38 years old and may not have a long rope.

After this series of the Western Indies, the next Australian test task is scheduled to be the ashes at home in November. If Khawaja does not act in the second tickets of this ongoing test, they could well be his final entries of his international career.

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